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Bath
15 Tom de Glanville
14 Semesa Rokoduguni
13 Jonathan Joseph
12 Max Ojomoh
11 Will Muir
10 Orlando Bailey
09 Ollie Fox

1 Lewis Boyce
2 Tom Doughty
3 Will Stuart
4 Josh McNally
5 Charlie Ewels (c)
6 Tom Ellis
7 Ewan Richards
8 Josh Bayliss

16 Jacques du Toit, 17 Juan Schoeman, 18 D’Arcy Rae, 19 Will Spencer, 20 Mike Williams
21 Joe Simpson, 22 Max Clark, 23 Ruaridh McConnochie


Warriors
15 Jamie Shillcock
14 Perry Humphreys
13 Francois Venter (c)
12 Ashley Beck
11 Duhan van der Merwe
10 Fin Smith0
9 Gareth Simpson

1 Rory Sutherland
2 Niall Annett
3 Christian Judge
4 Joe Batley
5 Andrew Kitchener
6 Kyle Hatherell
7 Ted Hill (c)
8 Matt Kvesic

16 Scott Baldwin, 17 Ethan Waller, 18 Jay Tyack, 19 Matt Garvey, 20 Sam Lewis
21 Will Chudley, 22 Oli Morris, 23 Harri Doel


The only thing of any interest in this match is to see if we can watch the Simpsons at 9.

I didn't know we still had ours

I dunno Finn Smith Vs Orlando Bailey is a good match up of two of England's bright young playmakers.

Sutherland Vs Stuart at scrum time could be interesting as well.

FKAS wrote:I dunno Finn Smith Vs Orlando Bailey is a good match up of two of England's bright young playmakers.

If I thought their packs would go well enough to provide a platform, I'd agree - but it's going to be a (nother) cripple fight.

Which Tyler wrote:

FKAS wrote:I dunno Finn Smith Vs Orlando Bailey is a good match up of two of England's bright young playmakers.

If I thought their packs would go well enough to provide a platform, I'd agree - but it's going to be a (nother) cripple fight.

A good 10 looks quality behind a good pack. A great 10 looks quality behind a crap one.

Worcester showed a pretty decent ability to run the ball a couple weeks ago against Sarries. But if you're dragging them down into the Bath mud then it will certainly limit it as a spectator sport.

Interesting TMO decision in the opening minutes at the Rec.
But my stream is goitching and I can't give an opinion...

ETA red for Sutherland - head on head with mitigation being a THP's "sidestep"
Stuart fails his HIA

80m and 80s later, try Rocco (good hands and play, not convinced the extra man made any difference there)

Interesting TMO decision in the opening minutes at the Rec.
But my stream is glitching and I can't give an opinion...

ETA red for Sutherland - head on head with mitigation being a THP's "sidestep". She. I finally got 10seconds of actual stream it was red all day
Stuart fails his HIA

80m and 80s later, try Rocco (good hands and play, not convinced the extra man made any difference there)

Shilcock confuses the entire Bath defence by running diagonally towards the corner flag.
Scores the try

Bath win. 22-19 and with Wuss down to 14. But a wins a win and boy did they need it.

Well done, had to happen at some point, and more than a few teams relieved that someone else broke your duck.

Bath probably need a bit of confidence, this win might just give it to them. Between that and a defence coach they could be a more dangerous team for the rest of the season.

FKAS wrote:Bath probably need a bit of confidence, this win might just give it to them. Between that and a defence coach they could be a more dangerous team for the rest of the season.

I was joking yesterday that it wouldn't be beyond the reals of possibility and the topsy turvey last couple of seasons that they now got top six and made a push for playoffs (although probably a mathematical impossibility).

Shiny wrote:

FKAS wrote:Bath probably need a bit of confidence, this win might just give it to them. Between that and a defence coach they could be a more dangerous team for the rest of the season.

I was joking yesterday that it wouldn't be beyond the reals of possibility and the topsy turvey last couple of seasons that they now got top six and made a push for playoffs (although probably a mathematical impossibility).

I was thinking the confidence would give Bath the impetus to maybe finish off a couple of games instead of falling away rather than making a push for top 6. I suppose they could make top 8 and sneak into Europe.